How to Stay Cool-Tempered by Daniel Theyagu

If anger is used inappropriately, it may cause other symptoms that give negative results. When channeled ineffectively, anger will disrupt your life and your relationship with your family, friends and working colleagues. Negative anger will also control your thought process and leaves a negative impression of the thing or person you are angry at. This will inevitably disallow you from looking at the situation objectively and you become biased and opinionated. Your action or words might hurt others and cause them to lose respect for you which in turn will cause other forms of emotional problems. Chinese philosopher, Confucius said: "When anger arises, think of the consequence."

Healthy body gives healthy mind. The reverse is also true in that a healthy mind makes a healthy body. In a journal published by the American Heart Association, a study conducted showed that people who are more prone to getting angry are three times more likely to have a cardiac arrest leading to fatality as compared to people who are less anger prone.

Negative anger clouds your rationality and good sense of judgment. This will make you feel physically and emotionally drained. Greek thinker Epictetus said: "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

This in principle espouses the need for you to manage your anger. The choice to be angry and stay angry is one that only you should be allowed to make. If you want to resolve matters or conflict with others you first need to be in control of your feelings. Late Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi puts it: "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

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